Biographies

Reflections on the Eucharist and aspects of our faith, informed by his experience of suffering and trust in God inside a Vietnamese prison. The ref...

Fr Alexander Men - Martyr of Atheism. Father Alexander Men (1935–1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded fig...

Francis and Thérèse. Great “Little” Saints. God, the Almighty, chose for himself as the place of his appearance what was the very smallest and most...

St. Francis for Today. Francis Bernadone - who was he? None other than St Francis of Assisi, a man with a decided message for our time. He lived in...

Frederick William Faber. A Great Servant of God. A comprehensive picture of the life and spiritual development of the founder of the London Oratory...

From Burma to Rome. On Palm Sunday 2013, in St Mary's Cathedral, Rangoon, Burma, Benedict Rogers was baptised, confirmed and received into the Chur...

George Macdonald. An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis him...

George Mackay Brown. No Separation. The poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney's, but Britain's best twentieth-century po...

George Myers: Pugin’s Builder. George Myers (1803–1875) was one of the mid-nineteenth century's great masterbuilders. From his workshops, first in ...

Father Ignatius Spencer. The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century they achieved the comma...

In God's Hands. The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the lo...

The Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810-1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Con...

Strange Vagabond of God. Life of John Bradburne. John Bradburne’s life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-...

John Henry Newman - His Life and Legacy. New Biography by the world-renowed expert on Cardinal Newman, by Fr Ian Ker. The life of Cardinal John Hen...

St John of Ávila, Doctor of the Church. Discerning your Spiritual Journey. On 7th October 2012, Pope Benedict declared St John of Avila a Doctor of...

John XXIII, The Universal Parish Priest. Life of the Pope who inaugurated the Second Vatican Council. Intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humb...

Saint Josemaria Escriva and the Origins of Opus Dei. St Josemaría Escrivá, canonized by Pope John Paul II in October 2002, was born in 1902 in the ...

This important study of key Anglican Benedictine Communities in the first half of the 20th century provides a vital record of how the Anglican Comm...

Mr. Wason… I Think. Born in 1867 Leighton Sandy Wason (always known as Sandy) was ordained priest in 1898. In this well written and engaging biogra...

Louis and Zélie Martin. The Seed and The Root of The Little Flower. The canonization of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieu...

Louis Marie de Montfort. His Life, Message and Teaching. St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort is one of the greatest teachers of devotion to the Ble...

Love is a Radiant Light.The Life & Words of Saint Charbel. “A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray sca...

Marthe Robin. A Chosen Soul, The story of a life of suffering lived with Christ. Marthe Robin was born into a peasant farming family in 1902, one o...

Sixteen hundred years after his death, Martin of Tours - soldier turned holy man and hermit - continues to exert a profound influence on our contem...

The figure of Mary Magdalen has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. She is portrayed in the Gospels as a neurotic woman, possibly with a...

Mary of Nazareth. History, Archaeology and Legends. This is the first archaeological and historical biography of the most fascinating and revered w...

Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time’. Although several books on Queen Mary have been published in recent year...

Meister Eckhart. The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing. First published in 1988 Ursula Fleming’s, highly praised book brought the work of this great Rh...

Message of St. Bernadette. Christian suffering and Bernadette of Lourdes. Mgr Vernon Johnson’s classic text on what Bernadette has to teach us abou...

Michel de Certeau or Union in Difference. An important introduction to the thought of Michel de Certeau (1925–1986). It emphasizes with great sensi...

Newman at Littlemore. Fr Bernard’s Basset’s Newman at Littlemore has been a source of knowledge and inspiration for countless Newman friends since ...

St Nicholas Owen. Priest-Hole Maker. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I it was high treason, and therefore meant death, to be a Catholic ...

Blessed Nicholas Postgate, Martyr of the Moors. Father Nicholas Postgate is one of our best-loved martyrs whose lonely mission in the wilds of the ...

Saint Norbert. On the 900th Anniversary of the founding of the Norbertine Order, CTS presents this new biography of St Norbert, apostle of peace an...

The Anglo-Catholic movement which flourished in the early and mid twentieth century is famed for its dedicated and heroic work in inner-city slum a...

Padre Pio, A Holy Priest. Life of one of the most famous saints of modern times. Canonised on the 16th June 2002, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better ...

Passion for Truth: The Life of John Henry Newman. Painstakingly uncovering the life and work of Blessed John Henry Newman. In the story of his earl...

Diary of a City Priest, Pastor Iuventus. This book provides a selection of the best of the weekly ‘Pastor Iuventus’ columns from the Catholic Heral...

St. Patrick, His Confession and Other Works. Translated by Neil O'Donoghue. Discover St. Patricks relevance for the 21st century through his Confes...

Paul Claudel. Poet of the Sacred Cosmos and Prophet of a Christian Ecology. Although Paul Claudel (1869-1956) was a great poet, not simply a great ...

Paul VI. The first modern pope. Telling the life of the Pope who will be beatified on October 19th 2014. During Pope Paul’s reign (1963-1978) more ...

Fr Pedro Arrupe SJ. This revised edition of George Bishop's biography marked the centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe. In the tempestuous history...

St. Philip Neri, A Portrait, by Louis Bouyer. First published in the 1970’s, this new edition of Louis Bouyer’s classic portrait of St Philip Neri ...

Phoebe, By Paula Gooder. Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, ...

Pope Francis. A short biography of the new Holy Father. Amidst the many media reports on the newly elected bishop of Rome and his possible effect o...

John Paul II - Man of Prayer. John Paul's exhortation ‘Do not be afraid!’ with which he opened his pontificate alluded to this simple self-giving t...

Stories of Karol, The Unknown Life of John Paul II. Countless biographies have been written about Pope John Paul II. Here a well-known Vatican insi...

Pope John. Blessed John XXIII. Relatively unknown when he was elected Pope at the age of seventy-seven in November 1958, Angelo Roncalli soon made ...